Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
I never had the blues; the blues always had me.
Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.
I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love. . . 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique. . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.